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If you have been attending my pregnancy and postnatal yoga classes you will know that I talk about pelvic floor muscles A LOT!
Now let me share a secret with you. My pelvic floor is a drama queen. It has been almost 4 years since I was last pregnant, 11 years since my first pregnancy and it still behave like I gave birth last week. My partner’s favourite game is too make me laugh until a little wee comes out! And I can’t sneeze without fearing for my knickers.<\/p>\n
In fairness my pelvic floor is far stronger since my second pregnancy than it was after my first baby. And that’s because I did a lot of exercices the second time around and it really made a difference. 11 years ago I didn’t know all the wonderful things I know now on how and why you should squeeze. If you have been attending my pregnancy and postnatal yoga classes you will know that I talk about pelvic floor muscles A LOT!Now let me share a secret with you. My pelvic floor is a drama queen. It has been almost 4 years since I was last pregnant, 11 ye…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisduretbirthandbeyond.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
So let me share with you some wonderful facts:
1 – The pelvic floor muscles supports your internal organs (bladder, intestines, uterus etc.) as well as your spine.
2 – They maintains bladder and bowel control (including when you sneeze, cough, lift heavy objects etc.).
3 – They help you enjoy sex more.
During pregnancy and birth:
4 – They help prevent constipation and piles.
5 – They supports the weight of the baby and amniotic fluid.
6 – Helps rotate the baby\u2019s head into the correct birth position.
Do you know any more facts about the pelvic floor muscles? In the next post I will look at the different exercises you can do to train those muscles.
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